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Places are offered on the basis of a portfolio of writing. We are looking for writers with potential to soon begin publishing their work. It is helpful, but not essential, for the applicant to have some idea of the project they hope to undertake during the course of the degree. Evidence of prior study in the area, a long-standing writing practice, workshop experience, and extensive reading can also strengthen the application. However, the most essential element of the application is the writing itself. We are currently only accepting submissions for fiction, creative non fiction (for example, memoir) and poetry. The portfolio should be no longer than 20 pages of fiction or creative non-fiction (double spaced, 12-point font) or 8-10 pages of poetry.

See international equivalent qualifications on the International Office website.

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Course content.

The MA in Creative Writing at Bristol is designed for writers who would like to begin publishing their work. In warm, supportive workshops, you will be helped to improve your writing and in lectures and seminars you will increase your understanding of the industrial and critical contexts of contemporary literature.

You will be taught industry-focused content by experienced published writers. A special unit will introduce you to issues in contemporary publishing. Guest writers and experts from industry will speak, bringing up-to-date knowledge and expertise to the course. We also work closely with local writing groups and writing initiatives. You will work with a professional writer one-on-one as your manuscript develops.

Welcomed into the University's prestigious Department of English , you will be taught by groundbreaking researchers about contemporary critical issues in literature. You will be encouraged to read widely and books will be suggested for you by faculty. At the end of the course, you should be able to speak confidently and intelligently about your work and your reading.

Twilight teaching allows people with working or caring responsibilities to study - as do the part-time options. A strong writing portfolio will allow access without a first degree in a related subject - or indeed without a first degree. Times of classes will be announced well in advance, so that students can accommodate study in their busy lives.

Information for international students

Fees and funding.

Creative Writing is among the subjects eligible for funding from the Postgraduate Master's Loan . The Faculty of Arts also offers funding opportunities for taught and research programmes.

International students are encouraged to apply for the Think Big Postgraduate Scholarship .

Further information on funding for prospective UK and international postgraduate students.

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• Distance learning is available for this qualification

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A postgraduate research qualification in Creative Writing consists of an original body of work - normally a novel, or a collection of poetry/short stories - with an accompanying critical element. The critical element will place the creative work in an informed and theorised analytical context.

The total assessed word count will be 25,000 words for the MPhil and 80,000 words for the PhD (or equivalent for poetry). The proportion of the creative to the critical work will be agreed by the supervisory team, but in total will usually consist of around 65-70% of creative text and 30-35% of critical text.

All postgraduate research students are supervised by two academics, one of whom will normally be a creative writing academic and the other from English Literature or a related discipline relevant to the creative and critical work. As with the traditional research degrees, the final submission will be expected to make 'a substantial and original contribution to knowledge'. For Creative Writing, this means a body of work that contributes in individual, significant and demonstrable ways to current discourses in literature.

The relation to such discourses will be articulated in the creative work and conceptualised and explored in the critical element; both are intended to address the same research questions, generating dynamic interplay between creative and critical practice.

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Creative Writing MPhil University of Bristol

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A postgraduate research qualification in Creative Writing consists of an original body of work - normally a novel, or a collection of poetry/short stories - with an accompanying critical element. The critical element will place the creative work in an informed and theorised analytical context.

The total assessed word count will be 25,000 words for the MPhil and 80,000 words for the PhD (or equivalent for poetry). The proportion of the creative to the critical work will be agreed by the supervisory team, but in total will usually consist of around 65-70% of creative text and 30-35% of critical text.

All postgraduate research students are supervised by two academics, one of whom will normally be a creative writing academic and the other from English Literature or a related discipline relevant to the creative and critical work. As with the traditional research degrees, the final submission will be expected to make 'a substantial and original contribution to knowledge'. For Creative Writing, this means a body of work that contributes in individual, significant and demonstrable ways to current discourses in literature.

The relation to such discourses will be articulated in the creative work and conceptualised and explored in the critical element; both are intended to address the same research questions, generating dynamic interplay between creative and critical practice.

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01 August 2023, 01 December 2024

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Course summary

The MA in Creative Writing at Bristol is designed for writers who would like to begin publishing their work. In warm, supportive workshops, you will be helped to improve your writing and in lectures and seminars you will increase your understanding of the industrial and critical contexts of contemporary literature. You will be taught industry-focused content by experienced published writers. A special unit will introduce you to issues in contemporary publishing. Guest writers and experts from industry will speak, bringing up-to-date knowledge and expertise to the course. We also work closely with local writing groups and writing initiatives. You will work with a professional writer one-on-one as your manuscript develops. Welcomed into the University's prestigious Department of English, you will be taught by groundbreaking researchers about contemporary critical issues in literature. You will be encouraged to read widely and books will be suggested for you by faculty. At the end of the course, you should be able to speak confidently and intelligently about your work and your reading. Twilight teaching allows people with working or caring responsibilities to study - as do the part-time options. A strong writing portfolio will allow access without a first degree in a related subject - or indeed without a first degree. Times of classes will be announced well in advance, so that students can accommodate study in their busy lives.

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https://www.bristol.ac.uk/study/media/postgraduate/admissions-statements/2024/ma-creative-writing.pdf

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International applicants.

The University of Bristol welcomes applications from international students and accepts a wide range of qualifications for postgraduate study. If you study or have studied at a university outside the UK, please select the relevant page for further information on qualifications, scholarships and education representatives in your country/region: bristol.ac.uk/international/countries

Entry requirements

Places are offered on the basis of a portfolio of writing. We are looking for writers with potential to soon begin publishing their work. It is helpful, but not essential, for the applicant to have some idea of the project they hope to undertake during the course of the degree. Evidence of prior study in the area, a long-standing writing practice, workshop experience, and extensive reading can also strengthen the application. However, the most essential element of the application is the writing itself. We are currently only accepting submissions for fiction, creative non fiction (for example, memoir) and poetry. The portfolio should be no longer than 20 pages of fiction or creative non-fiction (double spaced, 12-point font) or 8-10 pages of poetry. See international equivalent qualifications on the International Office website. https://www.bristol.ac.uk/international/countries/

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BA(Hons) Creative and Professional Writing

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Introduction

Study fiction, non-fiction, script and corporate copywriting, and shape your degree in line with your creative ambitions.

Why study creative and professional writing?

Studying creative and professional writing equips you with the expertise and experience to make a living as a professional writer.

It's been estimated that one in 11 jobs in the UK is in the creative industries - a sector that's outpacing the rest of the UK economy in its growth rate. The UK publishing industry in particular is experiencing record success, while platforms like Netflix and podcasts are capturing new audiences and creating new opportunities for writers.

Why UWE Bristol?

BA(Hons) Creative and Professional Writing develops your creative abilities and forms your identity as a writer. It also prepares you for the world of work by helping you acquire highly transferable skills and giving you access to a wealth of learning opportunities.

To succeed as a writer, you need many strings to your bow. That's why we offer tuition in corporate copywriting across all three years, alongside fiction, non-fiction and scriptwriting. You'll hone a broad range of writing skills, and be equipped to take on paid writing work in different areas when you graduate.

You'll also become adept at conducting research, and work on live briefs from Bristol-based employers that recruit skilled writers.

What's more, you can gain professional experience writing for UWE Bristol student media, including Hub Radio , Hub Voice student magazine and Cellar Door magazine.

Showcase your work to talent scouts and potential employers at the final year Degree Show .

Thanks to our connections, you have the chance to work with publishers and agents, as well as the Bristol Cultural Development Partnership, Watershed, Poetry Can, Spike Island, the Arnolfini and Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives.

We also enjoy links with commercial partners including Babcock International, Stratton Craig, John Wainwright & Company Ltd, The Writing Hut Ltd and Anthem Publishing.

Where can it take me?

Situated at the heart of Bristol's thriving creative sector, this course prepares you for a job in writing, the arts, publishing, creative media, marketing, advertising and communications.

You could become a novelist or screenwriter, work as a freelance copywriter or journalist, or go into an area such as corporate communications and PR.

Your writing skills will be sought after in other fields too, with good communication being important in just about every business.

" UWE Bristol has clearly one of the most forward-thinking creative writing courses in the country, with an eye on employability [and] also on the demands that are made of the 21st century writer if they are to thrive in the commercial climate. " Matt Thorne, External Examiner

Hear from one of our students, Rebecca, on how she felt supported to build her confidence as a writer .

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You'll register onto BA(Hons) Creative and Professional Writing. As you progress through the course you'll have the opportunity to specialise in a specific subject.

Depending on your module choices, you could graduate with one of the following awards:

BA(Hons) Creative and Professional Writing (Copywriting)

Ba(hons) creative and professional writing (scriptwriting).

• BA(Hons) Creative and Professional Writing (Publishing).

The optional modules listed are those that are most likely to be available, but they may be subject to change.

You'll study:

• Creative Practice and Writing Mechanics
• Fundamentals of Writing: Fiction
• Fundamentals of Writing: Non-fiction and Copy
• Fundamentals of Writing: Script.
• Reading for Writing: Developing a Novel
• Writing for Screen
• Writing for Stage.

Plus, four modules from:

• Poetry and Public Engagement (compulsory if you choose to stay on the BA(Hons) Creative and Professional Writing pathway)
• Commercial Writing and Content Marketing (compulsory if you choose the Copywriting, Publishing or Scriptwriting pathway)
• Creative Non-Fiction: True Stories Well Told
• Genre Fiction: Writing for the Market
• Scriptwriting for Gaming (compulsory if you choose the Scriptwriting pathway)
• The Writer as Cultural Commentator (compulsory if you choose the Copywriting or Publishing pathway).

Placement year (if applicable)

If you study on the four year (sandwich) course, you'll spend a year away from the University on a work placement after year two.

You'll complete a placement learning module: Professional Development on Placement.

See the Placements and Fees sections for more information.

You'll study four of the following modules:*

• A Career in Fiction
• Creative Project
• Creative Writing and the Self
• Publishing: From Commission to Print (compulsory if you choose the Publishing pathway)
• The Professional Copywriter (compulsory if you choose the Copywriting pathway)
• The Working Scriptwriter (compulsory if you choose the Scriptwriting pathway).

*If you complete the four year (sandwich) course, you'll study three of these modules

This structure is for full-time students only. Part-time students study the same modules but the delivery pattern will be different.

The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved, we'll inform you.

Learning and Teaching

Learn through workshops, seminars, lectures and one-to-one tutorials. Independent study is a key part of the course and you'll be taught and assessed by leading academics and professional writers.

Hone your writing skills by exploring and engaging with a range of forms and audiences.

Build a compelling set of professional skills, with access to practice-led teaching, live briefs, placements and freelance work with our external partners.

Learn to promote yourself, navigate the publishing, marketing and design sectors, and explore varied opportunities for your writing.

Research is built into all the modules. You'll develop your own research skills, and work with academics and partners helping to shape new thinking in the field.

You'll be supported to set up your own social and creative enterprises, such as journals and writing groups. An Academic Personal Tutor will provide individual support throughout.

Gaining broad experience across different types of writing in year one, you'll then have the option to shape your degree along one of four pathways, based on your module choices:

This pathway is for students who want to develop a broad set of skills throughout their degree. You'll study a mix of fiction, non-fiction, scriptwriting and copywriting modules across all three years.

This pathway is tailored for students with an interest in the commercial application of their writing. We'll help you develop skills and expertise to approach competitive environments with confidence, so that your copy cuts through.

BA(Hons) Creative and Professional Writing (Publishing)

Understand how the publishing industry works today. You'll consider changes such as the rise in self-publishing and audio books. Plus you'll explore how writers can influence wider social, economic and cultural conversations.

Explore scriptwriting for performance on stage, screen and radio, as well as scripts for digital media and gaming. You'll learn about the different professional requirements in each medium, understand how to be part of a writing team and keep up to the minute with the latest trends.

See our full glossary of learning and teaching terms .

Approximate percentage of time you'll spend in different learning activities*:

*Calculated from compulsory and optional modules (where applicable) each year.

Workshops, seminars, lectures, project work and tutoring account for an average of 12 hours of contact time each week.

You'll be expected to spend at least 12 hours in studying independently study outside of class.

You'll be assessed through your creative and reflective writing and process work, independent projects, examinations and oral presentations. You'll graduate with a portfolio of work to show prospective employers.

Learn more about assessments .

Approximate percentage of marks awarded by each assessment method*:

Work experience is valuable if you're entering the creative industries. It hones your skills, industry knowledge and professional network, making you a sought-after graduate.

If you choose the four year (sandwich) course, you'll spend a year away from the University on a work placement after year two. Your placement will be at least 26 weeks long and relevant to your course.

Our award-winning careers and employability service will guide and support you to find the right placement for you.

Study facilities

You'll study at Frenchay Campus , which houses a library with a large collection of books, DVDs, journals and other resources. Be inspired by films, books, plays and texts in quiet study areas, group spaces or viewing rooms.

Develop skills in blogging, editing and desktop publishing using industry standard software including Wordpress and Adobe InDesign. Access lecture slides, core readings and assignment guidance on UWE Bristol's Blackboard Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).

Take a virtual tour of the English, History and Writing facilities and see what's on offer here for you.

Writing project

Undertake an extended creative writing project in your final year, to explore ideas that inspire you, strengthen your individual style and build your confidence as a writer. Feedback from tutors will help you develop, and assess, your writing from a professional standpoint.

Learn vital entrepreneurial and project management skills for a freelance career in the creative and cultural industries. Access volunteering opportunities and internships with local cultural organisations.

Get involved

Bristol is a major creative hub for the arts and our staff have strong relationships with local organisations and events organisers. We'll encourage you to showcase your entrepreneurship and creativity by developing your own writing portfolio, and collaborating with students in subjects like graphic design and marketing.

Build your portfolio

Develop your news sense, working with UWE Bristol student media, including the Hub Radio and Hub Voice student magazine , Cellar Door magazine, published by our students, gives you the opportunity to showcase your creative writing. You can also bring creative screenplays to life in collaboration with our Filmmaking and Drama and Acting students in the School of Arts.

Socialise and learn

Supplement your studies with trips to cultural events and visits from highly experienced industry professionals. We'll also encourage you to set up your own social and creative enterprises, such as blogs, zines and writing groups.

Start your dream career at UWE Bristol

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Careers / Further study

Prepare for an exciting future in the cultural and creative industries. Tailoring what and how you study, you can shape the course towards your chosen career path.

You'll graduate with an impressive blend of subject and trade-specific writing expertise, and a range of highly transferable skills. You could establish a career in a number of professions including the arts, creative media and marketing.

You'll also be equipped for a career in publishing, editing, digital content creation, festival and cultural event management, and teaching.

Get inspired

Our award-winning careers service will develop your employment potential through career coaching and help you to find graduate jobs, placements and global opportunities.

We can also help find local volunteering and community opportunities, provide support for entrepreneurial activity and get you access to employer events.

Visit our Employability pages to learn more about careers, employers and what our students are doing six months after graduating.

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Your overall entitlement to funding is based on how long the course is that you're registered on. Standard funding is allocated based on the standard number of years that your course lasts, plus one additional year.

You'll apply for funding each year that you study and Student Finance will take into account how long the course is in each year that you apply. So if you register for the four year course and then transfer to the three year course, the number of years you can apply for funding will change. Student Finance will reassess your funding based on how many years you have been in study, not just those years for which you received student finance.

Always seek advice before taking any action that may have implications for your funding.

Learn more about funding .

Additional costs

This refers to items you could need during your studies that aren't covered by the standard tuition fee. These could be materials, textbooks, travel, clothing, software or printing.

Learn more about costs .

We are pleased to confirm that our New students webpages are now available for students starting this course in September 2024. Here you can find links to useful information about registering, course start dates, arriving on campus what to expect before and when you arrive.

We automatically send a message via your Welcome website plus an email to notify you once your Preparing to Study information is available. It is important that you regularly check your Welcome website for new messages.

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• Contextual tariff: See our contextual offers page .
• GCSE: Grade C/4 in English, or equivalent.

International and EU applicants are required to have a minimum overall IELTS (Academic) score of 6.0 with 5.5 in each component (or approved equivalent*).

*The University accepts a large number of UK and International Qualifications in place of IELTS. You can find details of acceptable tests and the required grades you will need in our English Language section. Please visit our English language requirements page.

• A-level subjects: No specific subjects required.

For information on required Guided Learning Hours please see our minimum entry requirements page.

• Access: No specific subjects required.
• Baccalaureate IB: No specific subjects required.
• Irish Highers: No specific subjects required.
• T Levels: No specific subjects required.

Entry requirements

International applicants.

For country specific entry requirements please find your country on the country information pages. If you're an international student and don't meet the academic requirements to study this course, you can qualify by completing preparatory study at our International College .

If you're applying to study at UWE Bristol and require additional support to meet our English language requirements, you may be able to attend one of our pre-sessional English courses. Read more about our Pre-Sessional English Programme .

Read more about entry requirements .

How to apply

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Hone your craft with the pros, start a lifelong apprenticeship in the literary arts.

The creative writing program that nurtured Dennis Lehane ’88, best-selling author and HBO writer/producer, is now accepting applications to earn B.A. and BFA degrees. But you don’t have to be gunning for a Hollywood contract to enroll. Our liberal arts graduates also go on to MFA programs and careers in journalism, media, PR, editing and publishing, counseling and software design.

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Writers in paradise.

Spend 8 days in workshops with writers like Andre Dubus III, Anne Hood, Laura Lippman, Lori Roy, Stewart O’Nan, David Yoo and Laura Williams McCaffrey. This writer’s conference is held on our Florida campus every January.

Facetime with famous authors

You’ll also have the chance to meet and talk with other celebrated writers including Stephen King, Carl Hiaasen, Julianna Baggott and Mark Bowden. These and other literary lights give talks here throughout the year.

Get help paying for college

Need help with finances? In addition to the academic scholarships we hand out upon application, you can apply for the Artistic Achievement Award .

In Their Own Words

Without my mentors through the creative writing department, I wouldn’t be in graduate school studying for my MFA with the opportunities ahead of me to teach and write. With their support, I was able to study travel writing in Paris and London, which was instrumental in my growth as a writer and a person. The creative writing department at Eckerd College is a hidden gem—once you find it, you must hold onto it! —Olivia Jacobson ’22

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Creative Writing majors have interned on campus with our student newspaper, The Current , and our literary magazine, Eckerd Review . Another recent student was an editing intern at I Love the Burg , a creative agency in downtown St. Petersburg.

Pay it forward by tutoring with Journeys in Journalism . This community program teaches local elementary, middle and high school students how to be reporters, photographers, editors and page designers for their school newspapers.

Spend a term living at our London Study Centre and studying the literature of Great Britain. Includes a week of travel and tickets to epic museums and theatre productions. Or choose from one of 300+ other destinations we offer every year.

Eckerd is just a stone’s throw from some of America’s hottest literary landmarks and events. Check it out:

• The Earnest Hemingway Home
• The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings historic site
• Miami Book Fair (November)
• Zora Neale Hurston Festival (January)

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Craft of writing.

This course reviews poetic and narrative language and introduces the concept of literary texture. Present what you write in class at public readings held on campus once a semester.

Writing Workshop: The Personal Essay

Learn about literary essays by reading masters like Harry Crews, Eudora Welty and Joan Didion. This class explores how to use imagination to shape format, technique and your own personal style.

What can I do with a Creative Writing degree?

• Business Manager
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• Media and Newspaper Reporter
• Software Designer of Interactive Fiction
• Technical Writer

Where our Creative Writing majors go to graduate school

• Chapman University
• Emerson College
• Florida International University
• George Mason University
• Hollins College
• Indiana University
• Stanford University
• The Johns Hopkins University
• The University of Miami
• The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
• University of Alabama
• University of Iowa Writers Workshop

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• Bluewater Books & Charts
• Dupont Registry
• Novelist & Poet
• St. Petersburg College
• Time Magazine

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‘Red Wedding’: Storied Stanford Creative Writing Program Laying Off Lecturers

The university says creative writing faculty recommended returning its Jones Lectureships to their “original intent” as short-term teaching appointments for talented writers. A lecturer of 20 years said he thinks there’s a “peasants and lords issue” in the program.

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Stanford University is laying off its current Jones Lecturers.

Some Stanford University lecturers are likening it to the “red wedding” in Game of Thrones —a massacre of characters by their supposed allies amid what had been billed as a celebratory feast.

Last Wednesday, a dean, a senior associate dean and a co-director of Stanford’s storied and popular creative writing program held a Zoom meeting with the program’s 23 Jones Lecturers, according to some of those lecturers, who were chosen from the ranks of those who have held the university’s prestigious Stegner Fellowship for writers.

The university leaders complimented the Jones Lecturers over Zoom. “They praised us to the moon,” Tom Kealey, a lecturer for two decades, told Inside Higher Ed . “Endlessly” praised was how Edward Porter, a lecturer of eight years, put it.

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Then, Kealey said, the leaders announced they would all be losing their jobs within the next two academic years. “The worst part is to be praised while you’re being fired,” Porter said. According to notes he took of the meeting, Nicholas Jenkins, the program’s co-director, said something to the effect of “you’re excellent, but others will be excellent in the future.”

There was an added sense of betrayal. The deans—Debra Satz, dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Gabriella Safran, senior associate dean of humanities and arts—said this wasn’t their decision, according to Kealey. In Medium posts on the ordeal, he wrote that they said it came from “the senior professors of creative writing.”

“These are literally our teaching colleagues of the last five to 15 years,” Kealey wrote. “And they decided in a previous secret meeting to fire all 23 of their junior colleagues.” In another post, he wrote that “it was only the MALE professors who voted to fire us.” ( Inside Higher Ed reached out Tuesday to some of the male creative writing professors on Tuesday, but received no responses.)

In an unsigned announcement last Wednesday on the university’s website, Stanford said it is returning to the “original intent of the Jones Lectureships: one-year appointments with the possibility of renewal for a limited term.” That announcement said the recommendation came from faculty members on a “Working Group of Creative Writing Academic Council faculty,” but it didn’t name them.

Satz, Safran and Jenkins said in an emailed joint statement to Inside Higher Ed that "this change will again allow Stegner Fellows the opportunity to apply to be Jones Lecturers once they have completed their fellowships. Jones Lecturers will have one-year appointments with the possibility of renewal for up to four additional years."

While it’s no longer rare for non-tenure-track faculty members to be laid off by higher education institutions facing budget woes, Stanford is a wealthy institution and creative writing is, by its own admission, a popular program.

“We have a large number of fully enrolled classes, many with significant waitlists and some where the waitlists are longer than the enrollment roster,” Jenkins said in a February 2023 article on the university’s website. He also said, “We’re in a remarkable period of hiring during which we’re fortunate enough to be bringing to campus an extraordinarily talented array of significant artists and teachers.”

But the lecturers say they’re the ones teaching most of the creative writing classes for undergraduates, and that their years of experience improve teaching. Kealey said some lecturers teach five classes a year; others teach four. He wrote on Medium of the senior creative writing professors that “the 10 of them … taught 13 undergraduate classes last year (and 19 overall, less than two classes taught per professor).”

The leaders said during the Zoom meeting the decision wasn’t about money, according to Porter. “It’s maddening to have outstanding enrollment and be phased out anyway,” he said. While the university has said it wants to simply return the Jones Lectureships to the short stints they used to be, Kealey suggests the tenured professors in his department had other motives.

“I think there’s a peasants and lords issue here,” Kealey said.

A Long Time Coming?

In 1946, Wallace Stegner, who would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for Angle of Repose , founded Stanford’s creative writing program. The Stegner Fellowships are named in his honor.

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E. H. Jones, who had an oil fortune, funded the fellowships and also established the connected Jones Lectureships, according to the university’s announcement from last week. It said these were meant to be “limited, fixed-year teaching appointments, allowing exceptional Stegner Fellows some time and support to prepare a manuscript for publication, hone their teaching skills and transition to a longer-term teaching career elsewhere.”

But “over time this framework of term-limited appointments was not followed,” the university said. It did not say when that change occurred. It might have had something to do with Eavan Boland.

Boland, an Irish poet, led the creative writing program for 20 years until her sudden death in 2020. “Eavan was just a fierce defender of the program,” Kealey said. He said her death “was a great loss to all of us.”

When Boland joined the program, Kealey said, it had maybe 20 or 25 classes. But Boland wanted every student who so desired to be able to take a creative writing class. Kealey said lecturers went to residence halls in early years to speak with students about the program. Over about 15 years, Kealey said, the program grew to offer about 120 classes.

Porter said Boland “developed a large cadre of about 20 to 25 lecturers.” Even though they were on one-year contracts, Porter said, they kept getting renewed. He said it’s true that Boland did move the lectureships away from their original intent—but that it was beneficial for students, teaching and the program.

“There are a lot of human skills to playing this game, and those don’t come in a year,” Porter said. “We have letters, testimonials from students about how much we’ve meant to them. We’re also very available to them—we talk to them outside of class, there’s a sense of continuing mentorship if they want it.”

Now, Porter said, “there is at least the appearance” of the university creating “artificial scarcity,” suggesting there’s no room for the new, younger Stegner Fellows writers to get a leg up by becoming Jones Lecturers “because these crusty old folks are hogging up all the real estate.” Safran, the senior associate dean, said, per Porter’s meeting notes, that “in some years few or no Stegners were able to advance.”

Kealey said, “There’s no shortage of space for new Stegner Fellows to be hired into the Jones Lectureships, but, I don’t know, the professors wanted to do a scorched earth with this, and that’s what they’ve done.”

The lecturers said they pushed for, and received, raises from the university in September 2023. “Exactly a year later we’re all fired,” so “connect the dots here,” Kealey said. “I think the lords didn’t like that—didn’t like the peasants speaking up.”

Porter talked about “balancing one set of values against the other.” He said the tenured or tenure-track “creative writing faculty doesn’t teach many classes and many of them are not involved—they don’t care about the undergraduates. It’s not their job to care; it’s their job to write books, be famous and raise money, and that’s very necessary.”

And part of the purpose of the Jones Lectureship program is to give new writers a step up. But Porter worries about the other side of the equation being lost. “It’s our job to care about the undergrads,” he said.

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Community Engagement For Community Partners

RWU provides our students with the best educational experiences: acquiring knowledge through classroom learning, and then applying their new skills and learning on and off-campus through research, project-based work, clinical practice, apprenticeships and internships, and creative endeavors that connect with our communities and our environment. 

RWU is committed to closing the widening gap between academia and industry through unique collaborations with our expansive network of industry, nonprofit and governmental advisors and partners. Working with external partners provides an excellent opportunity for RWU alumni to become engaged citizens and thrive in their work and life. And in this way, we are building a lasting and engaging relationship between RWU and the world around us.  When we extend our expertise beyond our campus borders, we strengthen the local, national and global communities around us, while that work also serves to enrich the educational experiences we provide our students. We envision a future where RWU is known for creating resilient communities that can bounce back from disruptions, innovate to meet new needs and thrive. Prioritizing active scholarship provides our community and organization partners with rigorous and relevant insights and research, and the tools to ensure long-term sustainable and equitable practices for their systems and the people they serve. Making a meaningful difference in our society and our planet is the essence of our engaged teaching, learning and scholarship. 

Students acquire the intellectual habits, practices and passion they will need in order to be lifelong learners, ready and able to pursue any new personal and professional challenge that they will face, embracing the spirit of continually acquiring new skills and expertise. 

Who We Serve 

Community Engagement provides project-based assistance to nonprofit organizations, municipalities, government agencies and low and moderate income communities in Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts. Our mission is to undertake and complete projects that will benefit the local community, while providing RWU students with experience in real-world projects that deepen their academic experiences.

Participating RWU Programs

RWU offers a variety of valuable academic programs that can enhance projects and have a meaningful impact on the project and the students in those programs. These programs bring a wide range of skilled faculty and students together where they can work collaboratively for the benefit of the community partner and to enhance their own learning and academic goals. These projects draw upon the skills and experience of students, faculty and staff from all RWU programs.

The primary method for meeting the goals of community partners, students and faculty is through the integration into a course(s) at RWU. These projects create a collaborative, interactive working environment where experts, citizens, faculty and students from diverse backgrounds can routinely work together. Many projects are trans-disciplinary and include the involvement of academic programs/courses, paid student workers, interns, volunteer organizations, and any other appropriate groups or individuals that can contribute their expertise and talent to the predetermined scope of work for the community partner.

All Community Engaged projects are defined by a Memorandum of Agreement with the Community Partner. This agreement: defines the project scope and the process to be followed; identifies the participating RWU faculty, staff and students and the community representatives; identifies primary and secondary goals; establishes the project timeline; outlines the final work products that will be delivered and presented. All potential Community Partners should review the sample Memorandum of Agreement for a typical course-engaged project.

Resources for Community Partners

• Community Engaged Project Application
• Memorandum of Agreement Example
• Scope of Work Example

Community Service Work Study

Students who receive federal work study funds are encouraged to earn them by serving with non-profits. This must be a long-term experience (at least one semester). Student income is provided by the federal government and there is no cost-share to partners.

Students can help with (almost) everything your organization might need – social media presence, program facilitation, data crunching, grant app reviews, outreach, accounting, ect. When you look around your organization, do you see a place where a free, regularly scheduled set of hands could be of assistance?

Submit proposed community service work study position descriptions to [email protected]

Sample Off Campus Work Study Agreement

Community Service Work Study Standards and Procedures

COMMUNITY SERVICE WORK-STUDY STANDARDS & PROCEDURES

Roger Williams University 

All questions about the Community Service Work Study Program should be directed to:

• Payroll - Patria Komiega, Administration Assistant at [email protected] or 401-254-5628
• General - Community Service Work Study Coordinators at [email protected] , or 401-254-3787 
• General - K.C. Ferrara, Director, Feinstein Center at [email protected] or 401-254-3765 

All questions regarding your financial aid award should be directed to the Financial Aid office at 401-254-3100 and located on the first floor of the Administration Building.

APPROVAL 

Students may only begin to work at a site after the Feinstein Center has received a signed off-campus work study agreement, Financial Aid has processed the Payroll Authorization packet, and Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) has approved the job description. 

WORK-STUDY LOCATIONS

Off-campus FWS jobs with federal, state, or local public agencies or private nonprofit organizations must be in the public interest. Off-campus FWS jobs with private, for-profit organizations must be academically relevant to the maximum extent possible.

   From the 2021/2022 Federal Work-study Compliance Manual, Chapter 2, page 41. 

You may not work at a for-profit business. 

You may not earn academic credit and work study funds at the same time. 

Working during your scheduled class time is prohibited.

Practicum, student teaching or a credit-bearing internship will not be approved as community service work-study positions. 

You cannot be paid by the agency at the same time you are being paid work-study funds. 

As an RWU employee, you are not permitted to sign a liability waiver from the host site.  If you are asked to do so, please contact the Feinstein Center for assistance.  

You may work at a religious institution, but the work you do may not be religious in nature (i.e. you can coach CYO basketball but may not teach Sunday school) or take place in a worship space (i.e. you cannot paint a chapel but you can paint an office). 

You may hold two work-study positions only if one of them is a community service work-study position. One may be on-campus, or both may be community service work. In the case of multiple positions, you must list all work-study employers with our office. 

It is the student’s responsibility to keep track of monies earned and not exceed their federal work-study award.  

ADDITIONAL PAYABLE TIME 

Training and meetings are payable time. This includes meetings called by the site supervisor or the CSWS supervisor.  This also includes training directly related to the tasks of your job or training needed to satisfy requirements for the job (i.e. CPR/First Aid, OSHA, etc.) 

ADP/TIME SHEETS 

RWU uses the ADP app to keep track of when you clock in and out of work. Download the ADP mobile app on your mobile device and create an account (at the bottom of your screen it should say “New? Get started”) using your RWU email address. Your employee ID number is your student ID. After setting up your account, under “Clock” you can clock in and out. 

In order for RWU to be in compliance with Department of Labor regulations, students must be paid in a timely manner.  Therefore, it is imperative that students log hours in ADP as they occur.

Students who hold two paid positions listed in ADP must use the “transfer job” function to ensure the hours are being charged to the correct account. This can only be done on the web platform, NOT the App. 

If a student forgets to log their hours as they occur, contact Patria Komiega immediately at [email protected] . 

Submission of false or inaccurate hours will be reported to Financial Aid and may result in loss of a work study award.

OFF-CAMPUS WORK STUDY AGREEMENTS

The federal government requires RWU to hold a signed agreement with all work study sites.  The Feinstein Center will contact the supervisor at your site to facilitate this.   

TRANSPORTATION 

Students are responsible for their own transportation to their work site.   

Students are encouraged to utilize RWU shuttle or RIPTA to reach their CSWS sites whenever possible.

Students are not permitted to operate or be a passenger in vehicles owned and operated by the agency for whom they work.  For example, a student may not take the food pantry van to pick up a donation.

RWU Motor Vehicle Policy

WORKPLACE SITUATIONS

The Feinstein Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement Coordinator is your official supervisor, but you also have a site supervisor at the agency. Any problems you encounter at the agency should be reported to your site supervisor immediately. These include injury, illness, and theft of personal items.

If you encounter situations on site that make you uncomfortable for any reason at all, and you feel that you cannot speak to your site supervisor, please contact the Director of the Feinstein Center immediately!

WORK STUDY SAFETY GUIDELINES 

The Roger Williams University Department of Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) develops and implements programs aimed at protecting the safety and well-being of the campus community.  EH&S assists with and monitors compliance with local, state and federal statutes, as well as regulations pertaining to occupational health, safety and environmental protection. As such, EH&S has established this “Safety Conditions Checklist” for off-campus sites who will be hosting Roger Williams University Work Study Students. 

Prior to hosting a University work study student, please review the following to identify the working conditions and physical demands which relate to the essential functions of the position.  All required training must take place before the work study student begins to perform services.

If the position will be directly exposed to any hazards in the work environment  such as chemicals, commercial products (oil, cleaning solvents), blood borne pathogens, or any other materials deemed hazardous by local, state or federal regulations, proper training and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) must be provided by the host site.  PPE includes such items as: protective eyewear, laboratory coats, appropriate gloves, hearing protection, respiratory protection (pursuant to the host site’s Respiratory Protection Plan), safety shoes and hard hats.   

If the position involves lifting, the maximum lifting required shall be forty (40) pounds with proper safe lifting training techniques provided.

If the position involves landscaping work, proper training is required for all equipment. Proper PPE is also required.

Students may not work on ladders higher than ten (10) feet or on any roof.

Students may not work in confined spaces.

Students may not use powered industrial vehicles (fork/reach/bucket lifts) or other industrial powered machinery that requires special certifications. 

Students may not operate their own motor vehicles or the host site’s motor vehicles as part of their duties.

Students must be informed of emergency evacuation procedures and protocols for the areas that they will be working in. 

Students may not be engaged in high risk duties that require specialized training.  Questions or concerns about whether the University would consider an activity to be high risk should be directed to the University’s Department of Environmental Health and Safety at (401) 254-3494.

Fund for Civic Activities

In September 2007, when Roger Williams University and the Town of Bristol reached agreement on the landmark PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) pact, a group comprising key representatives from both the town and the University was established to jointly consider items of mutual interest or concern.

In the years since, the Town of Bristol / Roger Williams University Cooperative Committee has provided an open venue for discussion and decision-making and has assisted in building upon a truly symbiotic relationship between both parties.

Through the Fund for Civic Activities – one of its most visible initiatives - the fund has distributed $350,000 since 2009 to support local services and projects that enhanced the civic experience in Bristol.

The Fund for Civic Activities (FCA) is a grant program created to support and recognize the relationship between RWU and the town of Bristol.  Grant requests are accepted twice a year and may be submitted by individuals or non-profit organizations. Individual awards do not exceed $2,500.

In support and recognition of the important relationship that exists between Roger Williams University and the Town of Bristol, the Town of Bristol/Roger Williams University Cooperative Committee created the Fund for Civic Activities (FCA). The FCA accepts grant requests twice a year to fund a broad range of projects and services proposed by individuals or non-profit organizations that work toward enhancing the civic experience in the Town of Bristol. Further detail regarding this fund, the application process and other project related criteria may be found in the FCA Application.

Click here for complete instructions and a printable application.

Click here for online application form. 

Click here for the online grant report form. 

Committee Members 

Town of bristol representatives.

Michael DeMello Fire Chief

Sara Hassell Interim Town Treasurer

Kevin Lynch Chief of Police

Warren Rensehausen Director of Parks & Recreation

Dr. Ana C. Riley Superintendent, Bristol Warren Regional School District

Diane M. Williamson Director of Community Development

Roger Williams University Representatives

Dr. John J. King Vice President for Student Affairs, Committee Chair 

K.C. Ferrara Director, Feinstein Center for Service Learning & Community Engagement

Dr. Jeffrey Merriweather  Dean, School of Humanities, Arts and Education 

Mackenzie Morgenweck '25 Student Representative  

Mark Porter Director, Public Safety

Jill Pais Assistant Vice President, Communications and Media Relations  

Community Partnerships

Rwu hosted partnerships.

CYCLE (Center for Youth and Community Leadership in Education)

HousingWorks RI

Narragansett Bay Estuary Program

Our Community Partners

134 Collaborative

Audubon Society of Rhode Island

Barrington Preservation Society

Benjamin Church Manor

Bristol Health Equity Zone

Bristol Warren School District Athletics

East Bay Chamber of Commerce

East Bay Food Pantry

God's Little Acre

Habitat for Humanity

International Tennis Hall of Fame

Linden Place

Looking Upwards, Inc.

Lucy's Hearth

McAuley Ministries

NE Council on Latin American Studies

Providence Cultural Equity Initiative

RI Department of State

RI Slave History Medallions

Save the Bay

The Met School

The Providence Center

Town of Bristol

Town of Bristol Bristol Parks and Recreation

Town of Bristol Police Department

Town of Tiverton/ Wilbour Woods

YWCA of Central Falls

Give Pulse community engagement portal

Our new community engagement portal, GivePulse is available to all non-profit and community based organizations that would like to engage with our students, faculty and staff.  GivePulse will allow you, our community partners, to list service opportunities and provide direct access to a pool of thousands of potential RWU volunteers. 

GivePulse is a platform that provides community partners with the opportunity to list their volunteer needs. YOU post your needs on a searchable database available to our entire undergraduate population. You can also use GivePulse to manage your non-RWU volunteers.

This is a free service provided by RWU.

Beyond RWU, GivePulse is a single platform for organizations to list and manage volunteer events and fundraisers. Communicate with your members, donors and registrants. Collect and analyze data, hours, donations, reviews, ratings and feedback.  Also, when you list opportunities, they are viewable by anyone logged into GivePulse, meaning that you can recruit non-RWU community volunteers as well.  

We are in the process of sending invitations to our community partners to become part of the GivePulse platform.  If you have not received an invitation and would like to utilize GivePulse, please contact [email protected] .  

Community Engaged Student Clubs and Organizations

All Paws In

Colleges Against Cancer

Delta Sigma Pi (for Business Students)

Engineers Without Borders

Food Recovery Network

Foundation for the International

Medical Relief of Children (FIMRC)

Future Teachers of America

Helping Hawks/Special Olympics of RI

Roger's Miracle Network (Hasbro Children's Hospital)

Send it on (Homelessness)

Society of Women Engineers

RWU’s mission is to “strengthen society through engaged teaching and learning”. As a private institution, we embrace our very public responsibility to partner with local organizations and municipalities. We value teaching that tackles community-based issues, share the resources and expertise of our community with our neighbors, and facilitate student engagement with the community.

Course-Engaged Projects

Students under the guidance of expert faculty members take on real projects that benefit real communities and partners. Working with Community Engagement is a great place to get your project started. We connect faculty members to the non-profits and municipalities we work with in RI and southeastern MA. Project applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Short-Term Volunteer Opportunities

Need help unloading a delivery of donations? Looking for artistic volunteers to paint faces at a fair? Organizations often request students to volunteer for special events or programs. Many of our residence halls, clubs and athletics teams look for these types of experiences as a way to build their team while making a difference. GivePulse is the place to list these opportunities.

RWU hosts events year-round that are open to our community, such as visiting speakers, public forums, athletic events and theatrical performances.

Department of English

Creative writing and creative practice, group members, joanna nadin.

Joanna writes novels for teenagers and adults that explore shifting identities, particularly related to class, as well as books for younger children celebrating curiosity and non-conformity, often through the device of comedy. She’s been nominated three times for the Carnegie Medal, and shortlisted for the Lollies and Roald Dahl Funny Prize, while the TV adaptation of Joe All Alone is now a BAFTA-winning and Emmy-nominated BBC drama.

Mimi writes narratives for young teens - mainly about recovering from trauma and about our connection to a natural world that has been compromised and mediated by human activities. Her stories are hopeful, but realistic and are centred on the life of the family. She had been nominated and short-listed for many literary prizes and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal in both 2017 and 2018.

Carrie Etter

Carrie is interested in articulating trauma through innovation in contemporary poetry and short fiction. Her poetry ranges from the linguistically innovative to the elliptical lyric to the verse novel, and she has particular interests in prose poetry, ecopoetry, and poetry engaging with classical mythology. Her most recent collection, The Weather in Normal (2018), in part addresses the climate crisis, particularly its effects on the American Midwest.

Billy Kahora

Billy is currently working on a multi-vocal novel that attempts to capture a key political moment in Kenya during a Constitutional referendum. Based on this, his research interests are narrative voice, novelistic societal registers and multi-vocality. He is also interested in creative writing teaching histories and pedagogies and involved in past (and ongoing events) on the African continent around this.

Madhu Krishnan

Madhu’s current project looks, among other things, at the role of creative writing and practice in the production of decolonial knowledge. She is also interested in the figure of the writer as key activist in the project of social production, and the potential for creative-critical forms of writing to engage publics and decentre Eurocentric models of intellectual production.

Lesel Dawson

Lesel’s research focuses on the relationship between grief and creativity, examining how the imagination impacts loss and adaptive grieving. She is the Arts and Culture Lead for The Good Grief Festival and has collaborated with artists, theatre companies, charities and community organisations on a variety of grief-related creative outputs.

Michael Kalisch

Michael is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, working on modern and contemporary American literature. He is particularly interested in connections between the history of the novel and the history of ideas; in Jewish American writing; in creative-critical practice; in the institutional contexts of literary production; and in minor and ‘failed’ writers and literary forms.

Noreen Masud

Noreen’s research centres on the literature of the early-to-mid-twentieth-century, particularly Stevie Smith, Edith Sitwell, D. H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein and Willa Cather. She works on writers who, in one way or another, disrupt narratives about what good literature should be or do: who present themselves variously as absurd, unrevealing, embarrassing, or useless.

Jessica Moor

Jessica Moor is a novelist whose work explores themes of feminism, victimhood, complicity and female agency. She is particularly interested in narratives that examine violence against women and girls. She was an Observer Best Debut Novelist of 2020, and her work has been long listed for the Desmond Elliot prize and shortlisted for the Mystery Writers of America Award. She was the winner of the 2022 Nouvelle Voix du Polar prize.

Tom Sperlinger

Tom Sperlinger is a Professor in the English Department. He is author of a memoir, Romeo and Juliet in Palestine (2015), co-author of Who are universities for? (2018), and is completing a book called A Man Who Wasn’t There. He has published journalism of various kinds and poetry.

William Wootten

William is a poet and critic. He has published on many modern and contemporary poets, including Walter de la Mare, Edward Thomas, Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter and is currently working on the psychology of verse form.

Bring Creative Writing Classes to Saint Petersburg's USF Campus!

Admission Steps

English and literary arts - creative writing - phd, admission requirements.

Terms and Deadlines

Degree and GPA Requirements

Additional Standards for Non-Native English Speakers

Additional standards for international applicants.

For the 2025-2026 academic year

See 2024-2025 requirements instead

Fall 2025 quarter (beginning in September)

Final submission deadline: December 16, 2024

Final submission deadline: Applicants cannot submit applications after the final submission deadline.

Degrees and GPA Requirements

Bachelors degree: All graduate applicants must hold an earned baccalaureate from a regionally accredited college or university or the recognized equivalent from an international institution.

Masters degree: This program requires a masters degree as well as the baccalaureate.

University GPA requirement: The minimum grade point average for admission consideration for graduate study at the University of Denver must meet one of the following criteria:

A cumulative 2.5 on a 4.0 scale for the baccalaureate degree.

A cumulative 2.5 on a 4.0 scale for the last 60 semester credits or 90 quarter credits (approximately two years of work) for the baccalaureate degree.

An earned master’s degree or higher from a regionally accredited institution or the recognized equivalent from an international institution supersedes the minimum GPA requirement for the baccalaureate.

A cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale for all graduate coursework completed for applicants who have not earned a master’s degree or higher.

Official scores from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), International English Language Testing System (IELTS), C1 Advanced or Duolingo English Test are required of all graduate applicants, regardless of citizenship status, whose native language is not English or who have been educated in countries where English is not the native language. Your TOEFL/IELTS/C1 Advanced/Duolingo English Test scores are valid for two years from the test date.

The minimum TOEFL/IELTS/C1 Advanced/Duolingo English Test score requirements for this degree program are:

Minimum TOEFL Score (Internet-based test): 80

Minimum IELTS Score: 6.5

Minimum C1 Advanced Score: 176

Minimum Duolingo English Test Score: 115

Additional Information:

Read the English Language Proficiency policy for more details.

Read the Required Tests for GTA Eligibility policy for more details.

Per Student & Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) regulation, international applicants must meet all standards for admission before an I-20 or DS-2019 is issued, [per U.S. Federal Register: 8 CFR § 214.3(k)] or is academically eligible for admission and is admitted [per 22 C.F.R. §62]. Read the Additional Standards For International Applicants policy for more details.

Application Materials

Transcripts, letters of recommendation.

Required Essays and Statements

Writing Sample

We require a scanned copy of your transcripts from every college or university you have attended. Scanned copies must be clearly legible and sized to print on standard 8½-by-11-inch paper. Transcripts that do not show degrees awarded must also be accompanied by a scanned copy of the diploma or degree certificate. If your academic transcripts were issued in a language other than English, both the original documents and certified English translations are required.

Transcripts and proof of degree documents for postsecondary degrees earned from institutions outside of the United States will be released to a third-party international credential evaluator to assess U.S. education system equivalencies. Beginning July 2023, a non-refundable fee for this service will be required before the application is processed.

Upon admission to the University of Denver, official transcripts will be required from each institution attended.

Three (3) letters of recommendation are required.  Academic recommendations preferred.  Letters should be submitted by recommenders through the online application.

Essays and Statements

Essay instructions.

Applicants should submit a sample of critical prose (e.g., a seminar paper, scholarly publication, or excerpt from thesis or other longer work demonstrating familiarity with the conventions of academic research and writing) not to exceed 20 pages.

Personal Statement Instructions

Personal statements should be 2 pages maximum and should address the applicant's past academic experience, future scholarly goals, and their suitability for graduate study and research in our program.

Résumé Instructions

The résumé (or C.V.) should minimally include the applicant's educational history, work experience, academic experience (including research opportunities or presentations), selected publications, and/or volunteer work.

Writing Sample Instructions

Applicants must submit representative samples of creative work (for Prose, no more than 30 pages; for Poetry, 5 - 10 poems).

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Online Application

Financial Aid Information

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Your submitted materials will be reviewed once all materials and application fees have been received.

Our program can only consider your application for admission if our Office of Graduate Education has received all your online materials and supplemental materials by our application deadline.

Application Fee: $65.00 Application Fee

International Degree Evaluation Fee: $50.00 Evaluation Fee for degrees (bachelor's or higher) earned from institutions outside the United States.

Applicants should complete their Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) by February 15. Visit the Office of Financial Aid for additional information.